How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars

TSA Groin Searches Menstruating Woman

http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/11/24/tsa-groin-searches-menstruating-woman/

Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job

http://www.voltairenet.org/article167733.html

Intensive Early Intervention Behavioral Therapy could cure autism

http://www.citypages.com/2011-01-26/news/intensive-early-intervention-behavioral-therapy-could-cure-autism/

Minecraft Now Has One Million Paying Players! But When's the Mainstream and Tech Press Going to Notice Notch?

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/01/minecraft-sells-a-million-copies.html

Wow, Minecraft = successful. Nearly 1/3rd of registered users have paid? That's a major success in the Free to Play field.

Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axzxe1a78E

Anime Japan Video Music Magic Pad - Mike Shiver & Ashkan Fardost - Arise (HD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ja6kufbPl8&feature=related

Fireground Rules, Part 2: A Scheme is Not a Vision

http://www.fpif.org/blog/fireground_rules_part_2_a_scheme_is_not_a_vision

George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

http://www.ted.com/talks/george_whitesides_toward_a_science_of_simplicity.html

A funny 'game'

http://gambolio.com/#/game-play:10371/

Princess Boys and Star Wars Girls

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/portrait_of_an_adoption/2011/01/princess-boys-and-star-wars-girls.html

Antidepressants/Depression

http://www.robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Depression.html

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/13/how-to-turn-off-the-friction-in-gta-iv/

The cats dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owd9fSyPo9o

Bet Against The American Dream

http://vimeo.com/10864430

http://www.obsidianfields.com/lj/nonmonogamy2.5.gif

Thought Questions

http://thoughtquestions.com/page/3

What happens when we try to walk in a straight line blindfolded.

http://www.wimp.com/straightline/

http://www.cracked.com/article_18805_5-ways-stores-use-science-to-trick-you-into-buying-crap.html

Is IP another bubble about to burst? A view from another civilization.

http://opensource.com/law/09/12/ip-another-bubble-about-burst-view-another-civilization

Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/is-flattr-the-new-facebook-like-but-this-time-with-real-money/

I do believe the future of commerce, is in voluntary payments, not forced payments. Convincing people to want to pay you, will be the key to success.

Powerful Video Editor Lightworks Released as Open Source

http://ostatic.com/blog/powerful-video-editor-lightworks-released-as-open-source

This is brilliant. If they play their cards right, they become the defacto choice for video editing, and get money from the ad-on marketplace they create for it. It is generally better to own the marketplace, than to own the products sold on it. Examples are Apple's iTunes, Amazon.com, and Valve's Steam.

Indoor skydiving like a boss.

http://www.wimp.com/indoorskydiving/

Why Businesses Can't Stand Free Markets: Veronique de Rugy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-23/why-businesses-can-t-stand-free-markets-commentary-by-veronique-de-rugy.html

A Simple Explanation for a Strange Paradox: Why the US Economy Grew Faster When Tax Rates Were High, and Grew Slower When Tax Rates Were Low

http://web.archive.org/web/20110123211130/http://www.presimetrics.com/blog/?p=261

Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222173033.htm

What is Choice?

To tackle the question of whether or not we have free will, I think we need to first determine what it means to have a choice. So, my question is this: if a person's choice can be predicted ahead of time, is it still a choice? Example: if you were offered two choices of dessert (perhaps a slice of cake or pie), and it was obvious to people who knew you, which one you would take, was that still a choice?

The definition of Free Will is often based upon having the ability to make a choice. If the answer to my question is yes, then it's possible for determinism and fate (the outcome is already known) to coexist with Free Will (choice).

Inside 'Anonymous'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/dec/13/hacking-wikileaks

Manufacturing Consent – Is It Rape?

http://www.nomas.org/node/150

The Top Three Myths About Anonymous

http://gawker.com/5710948/the-top-three-myths-about-anonymous

Researcher slams clinical trials process

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Researcher+slams+clinical+trials+process/4005627/story.html

Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-regarding-net-neutrality/68294/

The War on Cameras

http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/the-war-on-cameras/print

Lots of crazy US laws against recording police officers.

New Mario Bros. Movie Trailer | The Game Station Exclusive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9oa_PiXAk

Improv comes from fluency.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_improvisational_brain/

http://www.duelinganalogs.com/blog/2010/12/17/rockstars-amazing-facial-expression-technology/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hallucinogens-as-medicine

http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-bitch.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_17061_5-things-you-think-will-make-you-happy-but-wont.html

http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/the-bad-daddy-factor-25764/

Edward T. Babinski: If It Wasn't for Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe!

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/leaving_the_fold/babinski_agnosticism.html

Amazingly bad security.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx

http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_6-brainwashing-techniques-theyre-using-on-you-right-now.html

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-without-limits/201011/the-downside-polyamory

http://www.science20.com/rogue_neuron/creativity_crime_passion

http://www.cracked.com/article_16239_5-psychological-experiments-that-prove-humanity-doomed.html

Re Your Brains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOlznuyPOeM

http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/07/28/researchers-hack-can-make-atms-spew-money/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/5-outrageous-hacks-perpetrated-by-the-ftcs-new-chief-technologist/9641

What Christmas Is All About

http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=470

The Most Dangerous Reindeer Game

http://kafkaskoffee.com/wp/?webcomic_post=the-most-dangerous-reindeer-game

Have we customers ever been so impotent?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1340984/Heathrow-Airport-BAA-stole-Christmas-Have-customers-impotent.html

The origin of reason?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/27/reasoning-gut-instinct-oliver-burkeman

How to make a blockbuster free: Ars explores Firefall

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/12/how-to-make-a-blockbuster-free-ars-explores-firefall.ars

wtf?

http://www.wimp.com/seriouslyjapan/

http://nestmann.sovereignsociety.com/2010/09/16/are-independent-thinkers-mentally-ill/

Holloween

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOUYBN8W0I

It's a bit late, oh well.

http://io9.com/5700180/fan-video-proves-that-every-anime-show-has-the-same-opening-credits

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/01/03/the-rape-of-mr-smith/

Running out of content.

It seems I'm exhausting stumbleupon's supply of good, interesting articles. I can't seem to find them as fast as would be needed to maintain the daily post rate. Sorry about that. Maybe I can extend things a bit by digging up some old stuff I thought was interesting enough to save a bookmark of.

edit: my alarm may have been premature. Seems I'm able to keep up for a while longer than expected. I miss having way more content than I needed though.

What different sorting algorithms sound like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/30/tsa-opt-out-parody-f.html

The weird evolutionary story of cranberries

http://io9.com/5694828/the-weird-evolutionary-story-of-cranberries

People Hacking

http://vimeo.com/16189133

http://www.wimp.com/goodmusic/

A New Way of Looking at Healing and Death

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/healing-death/

http://thehathorlegacy.com/why-dont-women-just-leave-abusers/

Power of the Sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8

WikiLeaks' resilience shows strength of Internet-age lifelines

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120807287.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_18874_7-real-car-chases-way-crazier-than-anything-in-movies.html

10 Things You Didn’t Know Were in the Constitution (of the U.S.A.)

http://glibberal.com/2306/

Super Mario: Shaken, Stirred And Amazing

http://kotaku.com/5684190/super-mario-shaken-stirred-and-amazing

Virtual Idol on Stage.

http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/09/cant-miss-videos-of-japans-3d-hologram-rock-star-hatsune-miku-in-hd/

Wow, it's weird to see anime proportions in a real world setting. Looks out of place.

Cendrillon with English Sub - Kasane Teto Ted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzLnEofnMY0&feature=related

U.S.A. Airport Security is Silly.

http://weinterrupt.com/2010/12/world-much-stupider-than-returning-soldier-remembered-tsa

Artificial Flight and Other Myths (a reasoned examination of A.F. by top birds)

http://dresdencodak.com/2010/02/16/artificial-flight-and-other-myths-a-reasoned-examination-of-af-by-top-birds/?hl=en

Riot's greatest challenge.

Riot is the maker of League of Legends. It seems to me, that the worst part of their game, is the other players one has to play with. I just get this feeling that the entire game is engulfed in this culture of hate, which is spread by the constant anger spewed forth in games.

Riot really needs to find someone who can defuse the anger in their playerbase. I don't know if any such person really exists, but I am of the opinion, that managing the emotions and reactions of players is something game companies need to learn how to do, if they wish to truly shine in the future. It is quite possibly the most difficult problem for a game company to try and tackle.

One thing that worries me: the standard method to deal with bad behavior is punishment. Unfortunately, most of the bad behavior stems from anger and disgust. Punishment can only increase people's anger and disgust.

The leaver problem: Lots of people will leave a game early. Often it means they've decided they don't want to play that game. Forcing them to play (if it were possible) isn't likely to make them into friendlier or better players, it will just make their resentment grow. What solution is there though? I really wish I knew, and I believe it is a question that really needs an answer. I wish I knew where to find it.

The rage problem: Lots of people will vent their frustrations in chat, this often demoralizes the whole team, as few will ever like hearing it. The only punishment I know of, is banning the egregious cases, which again, doesn't help improve people's attitudes any. At best, it convinces the worst cases to stop playing, but doesn't really change anything. It doesn't teach better ways of thinking, or behaving. Again, I wish I knew of a good solution, alas, it eludes me.

Another issue: the simple act of punishing people makes those who are angry with the ones getting punished feel justified in their anger, and encourages them to continue to be angry with others. It creates an endless cycle of hate. I desperately wish I knew how break the cycle and teach these people to lead happier lives.

Written on 11/7/2010

What the U.S. feeds it's children.

http://simplegoodandtasty.com/2010/03/07/an-open-letter-to-our-children-were-sorry-about-school-lunch

"In the past three years, the government has provided the nation’s schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn’t meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found."

http://thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/08/warning-may-incite-swat-teams.html

Scary.

http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/517

The 9 Layers of ELO Hell

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=292682

Zileas' List of Game Design Anti-Patterns

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=293417

Education paradigms

http://www.wimp.com/educationparadigms/

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/helicopter-governments-promote-an-illusion-of-safety-20101023-16yhe.html

Diminished Reality - live alteration of video feed.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/10/21/diminished-reality-impressive-video-manipulation-in-real-time-video/

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-real-cost-of-free/

"The sad truth is that almost everything almost every artist tries to earn money will fail. This has nothing to do with the internet, of course. Consider the remarkable statement from Alanis Morissette’s attorney at the Future of Music Conference: 97% of the artists signed to a major label before Napster earned $600 or less a year from it. And these were the lucky lotto winners, the tiny fraction of 1% who made it to a record deal. Almost every artist who sets out to earn a living from art won’t get there (for me, it took 19 years before I could afford to quit my day job)"

http://www.science20.com/evolutionary_economics/return_karl_popper_social_science_really_different_natural_science

Demanding Gamers

http://creativeuncut.com/webcomic/pixies-pub-comic0060.html

An amusing music video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6107593548912231229&q=anime+cute&pl=true#docid=69896983390415169

A conversation on privilege.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=129379

Censorship can be weird.

http://www.owningpink.com/blogs/owning-pink/sperm-trumps-vagina-wtf

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-social-thinker/201010/have-scientists-finally-discovered-evidence-psychic-phenomena

A neat looking game in the making.

http://4playerpodcast.com/2010/09/05/pax-2010-swarm-as-it-was-and-as-it-is-now/

The first vid looked like a neat concept, though I was concerned that it could get boring quickly. The second vid was more like a different game, with a new inventive method of managing life, and controlling the "character".

The trouble with genes

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/3401/the-trouble-with-genes?page=0%2C0

Murphy's Laws

http://www.xs4all.nl/~zira/murphy.html

A possible reason for why hot places liked hot food.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/3.5.98/spices.html

Some Thoughts on Teemo in League of Legends

I'm starting to think that the reason Teemo is seen as weak, is due to him not meshing well with the team fight heavy metagame. He actually seems more like an anti-team-fight character. With well placed shrooms, and his nuke potential with blinding dart and poison passive, he can ensure any enemy that is out of position gets torn apart. Done well, the opposing team should never be ready for a team fight, which is why I call him anti-team-fight. He helps prevent team fights from happening.

In general, I'd say Teemo works best in combo with good gankers who can pounce on vulnerable enemies, and run before enemy backup arrives.

Tip: Once your team has taken down a few towers, it can be very helpful to put mushrooms in the enemy forest.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lja_10-resonant-chamber_fun

The 5 Why's.

http://www.eielson.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123142308

The modern human condition.

http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/interesting-psychology/whats-wrong-with-people/

"Social networking sites like myspace and facebook are great for feeling that instinctive sense of “being sociable” but once the novelty wears off, you start to realise its no substitute for face to face contact. Technology may be very good at tricking the conscious mind, but it doesn’t trick the subconscious mind and instincts, which soon catch up."

I'm pretty sure this isn't actually true. From what I know, people had the same problem even before the internet. The issue isn't not seeing people face to face, but the content of the conversation. When conversations are shallow, people become miserable over time. People need to forge meaningful connections not mere chat buddies, to speak of things that truely matter to them, and feel that they are heard.